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adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am trash for an upright/uptight woman + crime lord combo and these two were absolutely combustible. I didn’t super love the conflict at the end and Duran never gives an epilogue and I really needed one here! 😭
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent
Minor: Pregnancy
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
HOOK THIS TO MY VEINS MY GOD THE PLOT THE STEAM THE TENSIONNNNNN. Nobody does class difference like Duran. Lilah is so cool. Christian loves her more with every “unladylike” habit he learns about. There is so much derring do and Catherine and Lily’s friendship SLAPS SO HARD. UGH SO GOOD.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
I am not in the right headspace for this time capsule of 90s misogyny, fatphobia and homophobia.
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is a classic farce with ever-increasing stakes and the two mains are so h*rny for each other I was living for every longing glance and brush of a hand. Vasti once again had me frothing at the mouth by the time Lydia and Arthur finally kissed++. I cannot overstate how delicious the tension is in this book MY GOD.
I enjoyed Lydia’s radical politics and took heart from her activism. I hope I can feel like throwing up and do my part anyway for the foreseeable future, because we are going to need all of us.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content
Minor: Pregnancy
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A choose your own adventure that really puts the Kindle format to great and very seggsy use. This was fun!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I wish this book had about three fewer side plots so we could have spent more time with Blackwood and Alice. It felt very scattered - what was the main conflict? Worbury? The terrible school? Alice and Blackwood being too busy to be married? Ripley not having his stuff together? Ultimately I really liked both Alice and Blackwood and wish Chase had refined this book a little more. Even if we didn’t get marriage in crisis like we were shown in the first two books, I would have enjoyed the story of these two falling in love and making a life together. It just really felt like this book needed a strong content edit and direction. All that said it was enjoyable, in a way, and the mains were great together. The dialog is funny and Alice is a great FMC, headstrong and fierce.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Grief, Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Abandonment
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
This collection of articles and interviews from Mariame Kaba explores ideas of organizing and abolition of the prison industrial complex. This collection is a good introduction to Kaba, how she thinks about community and healing, and how she works toward abolition. Sometimes I felt like I was listening to a conversation without context and that was a little frustrating but overall, this is a good collection for anyone interested in how we might work to change our world from one of punishment and surveillance to one of community and care.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was funny and bonkers and I really liked Portia, the FMC.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Sexual assault
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This romance made me so angry, mainly because the men in it are SO CHILDISH and the whole vibe is “oh boys are so stupid.” I was just incredibly put off by Ripley’s childish behavior, Ashmont’s drunkenness and the lengths to which EVERYONE in this book coddled them, including Olympia. Girl, you deserve better than another child to manage.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved this full length Murderbot story with lots of new characters (and some familiar ones!).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence
Moderate: Slavery